Cruising Tips

Which sail should you reef first when the wind gets up—your genoa or mainsail?


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Cruising Grounds

Favorite Weekend Cruise: Great Salt Lake

by Lance Fairbanks, Posted June 18, 2013

Imagine sailing 4,198 feet above sea level on a lake that’s saltier than the ocean and larger than the state of Rhode Island—a lake where sudden storms erupt from nearby mountains and conditions shift from glassy to gale-force in an instant. 


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Cruising Tips

SAIL's Tip of the Week

by SAIL Editors, Posted June 18, 2013

It doesn’t matter how scrupulous you are about keeping your heads compartment clean if you leave your intake hose and toilet bowl filled with seawater when you leave the boat.


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Columns

Viewpoint: Boarded and Belittled

by Paul Calder, Posted June 17, 2013

On the first morning of our trip from Miami to Bimini we were “pulled over” by a speedboat full of heavily armed Customs and Border Protection agents. At the time, three friends and I were sailing away from the United States at a stately two-and-a-half knots and were still within 10 miles of Miami.


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Books+Media

Hostile Shores

by Adam Cort, Posted June 17, 2013

A Modern-Day C.S. Forester


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